TheClimateChanger

Some very impressive highs across the "Empire State" including 96 at Dansville, 95 at Massena, 95 at Ogdensburg, 94 at Fort Drum, 93 at Fulton and Syracuse. The Miramichi, NB reading was 37.6C BTW, or 99.68F (basically 100F if you use typical American temperature rounding)!

The last time this feat was met was July 6-8, 2010!

Wow, 95F at Augusta, Maine!

That was @canderson post. I haven't posted in here in a while, specifically because of the trolling.

I'm not. @pasnownutwas giving me a hardtime about not posting the record lows, so I just quoted them to point out they were already posted.

They were already posted before I noted them?

Like I said, the record lows were already shared. I shared a record high that happened yesterday. Why would I post about record lows that happened over a week ago and were already shared?

1.5F below the record high daily mean, which was 83.5F set on June 19, 2024. Prior to that date, the record had been 82.5F.

It was 96 on June 19, 2020 & June 19, 2024. I missed the other 96F from 2020 because it only lists the most recent on the "calendar day summary." Interestingly, that same day (June 19) has matched the all-time record at CAR twice in the 2020s.

The haves and the have nots. When will this heat spill south and east out of northern New England and Upstate New York? It's like an impenetrable wall.

Yesterday was the 14th day at or above 90F at PIT this year. The point-click forecast suggests the possibility of as many as 4 more over the next week (forecast highs of 91 today, 90 tomorrow, 90 on Saturday & Sunday). Either way, should be a fairly warm to hot stretch which will likely eliminate the current monthly temperature deficiency.

The average high temperature at Buffalo has averaged 1.5F warmer than New York City (Central Park) for the first 10 days of August. Looking at historical records dating back to 1873 (153 years), I can find only 7 years where Buffalo was warmer for average high temperature for the first 10 days of August: 2025 (+1.5), 2021 (+2.5), 2016 (+3.4), 1959 (+1.8), 1947 (+5.9!), 1911 (+0.1), 1887 (+2.6). Based on 1991-2020 climate normals, Buffalo should be 4.5F cooler than New York City for mean high temperature over the first 10 days of August. The 153-year mean difference is slightly higher, with New York averaging 5.1F warmer. Oddly, over the last 10 years (2016-2025), the difference between the two locations has averaged only 2.0F, with 3 of the 7 cases noted above occurring in that 10-year stretch. Not sure if there's a problem with the sensor at Central Park, but certainly a strange discrepancy from the historical norms.

Yes, those were noted in this thread.

Record high of 86 yesterday at Bradford.

Will be interesting to see how high it can get at Caribou, Maine. Point-click forecast has 94, 1F shy of August monthly record and 2F shy of the all-time record set most recently on June 19 of last year, and previously on June 29, 1944 & May 22, 1977.

Very impressive drought since July 1.

Fortunately, the heaviest rain this morning appears to be missing MKE and the city, but additional rain is still likely.

Sounds like you dodged a bullet there. Wow.

Looks like MKE finished with 6.69” of rain. More heavy rain moving in - maybe a 10” two-day total?

Wow, very impressive. I wonder if it might be upgraded to a flash flood emergency?

Heat is certainly the big story today. At Muskegon, Michigan, the temperature soared to a new daily record of 91F yesterday, surpassing the previous record high of 90F, set in 1900, 1901, and 1941. Across Michigan, a number of stations exceeded 90F yesterday, with readings as high as 93F at Traverse City, Benton Harbor, and the Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Pottawatomi Tribal Soil & Climate Analysis Network station. The point-click forecast for Cherry Capital Airport is 97F today! This would break a daily record and come within striking distance of the monthly high of 100F. Certainly stay cool out there in northern Michigan!

Couple of nice looking storm cells out there tonight. One near Rose City, Michigan, south of Huron National Forest, and one northwest of London, Ontario.

Like I said, that's immaterial. This is a statewide average. This month was hotter even with the raw and unadjusted data. The mean of 105 stations was 78.94F, versus a mean of 78.83F in 1934. And that was with a lot fewer stations (50) which were more biased towards warmer, low-elevation and city sites. The 1934 data is also biased up a bit due to the observation time being 5 or 6 pm in the afternoon for cooperative observers, versus 7 am today. Even ignoring that, it was still hotter last month. 1901 was actually closer, with an unweighted mean of 78.86F, but that was the average of just 42 stations heavily biased towards the Coastal Plain. The gridded values from NCEI look very reasonable, with all of those years among the hottest and 2012, 2020 & 2025 being basically tied. But you are correct to say it "squeaked by" as it was indeed a 3-way tie, not a new outright record, and there are several other years within a degree or so. Pretty typical at a state level... it's rare to beat prior records by more than a few tenths of a degree particularly in the summer. An individual site sometimes beats an old record by 1+F but very rarely in the state averages, and never in the summer when variability is at a relative minimum.